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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ... by otoburb on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @05:42PM (#19090776)
>If you want me to not discriminate then please make laws which remove incentives to do so.

I guess the question for small business owners to help answer: what laws would make this work? Gender-neutral parental leave seems to be the best (least-worst?) option that governments have been able to implement so far.

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ... by bluecalm on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @09:00PM (#19092036)
State sponsored basic income like support for pregnant women and more support for parents. Tying benefits to your job and salary results in discrimination of women when hiring, women postponing motherhood and employers eating the risk of women looking for a job just to get pregnant and get benefits.
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